Since they entered the NBA as an expansion franchise in 1970-71 and promptly played solid .183 ball (15-67) in their first season under Bill Fitch, the Cavaliers have had 13 head coaches, not counting interims.

Of those 13, only four have coached the Cavs for more than three consecutive seasons: Fitch, Lenny Wilkens, Mike Fratello and Mike Brown.

Most of the rest have resembled bus terminal transients, spinning into and out of the coach's office after one, two, or three years.

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Ladies and gentlemen: Bill Musselman.

Three years seems to be about the norm for a coach to prove he deserves a fourth. Byron Scott is nearing the end of his third year, but because he has one more year left on his contract, it might be a little early to speculate on his future.

Or is it?

In the Cavs' hall of coaches, Scott is probably the most luckless. He signed on expecting to coach LeBron James, but when Scott opened his first training camp as coach, James was in Miami, and the guy at the head of the Cavs' layup line was Jamario Moon.

Talk about bait and switch.

"The Decision" changed everything for the Cavs -- including the expectations of Scott. As originally devised, the grand plan for his first year as coach was for him to take the Cavs to the next level. Instead, James took his talents to South Beach, and Scott took one for the team.

It became a full-blown roster deconstruction/reconstruction that is still going on, three years later, and Scott's career winning percentage as a coach was last seen on a milk carton.

The Cavs' winning percentage in their three years under Scott has progressed, more or less, from .232 to .318 to .338. At this rate, they'll be at knocking on the door of .500 at just about the time Kyrie Irving is retiring.

In all fairness, Scott gets a pass for Years 1 and 2, PL (post-LeBron). Seriously, what plays was he supposed to call that first year? An isolation for Leon Powe?

However, this is Year 3, or perhaps, Year Yee-Gads! Yes, the Cavs are better, but by how much? Is that enough? And what's up with this third quarter deal?

In case you haven't been paying attention, the Cavs play the third quarter like they spent halftime standing behind you at the concession stand.

At this point, it's becoming an ad nauseam refrain. The Cavs, or at least some humans wearing Cavs uniforms, come out for the start of the third quarter, and then -- to further extend the bus stop analogy -- stand around acting like they are waiting for one.

Scott apparently stresses the point at halftime that there's a game going on out there and the Cavs need to acknowledge that fact when they take the floor. But they rarely do. Scott recently tried a different approach by yanking the starters two minutes into a third quarter.

He thought maybe he made his point ... silly him. The third quarter malaise remains -- which raises the question of whether or not Scott should.

It's not exactly a ringing endorsement for a coach's ability to reach his team that when he constantly stresses to them the importance of doing "A" and that they end up doing "B."

This is especially distressing given that a large percentage of those on the Cavs' roster have, at best, a tenuous hold on an NBA job. When so many players with job security on the line fail to consistently play hard, should that be considered a red flag about the players or the coach?

Or both.

-- There are lots of different ways for NFL teams to make a splash in free agency. Leave it to the Browns to push the envelope.

In defensive lineman Desmond Bryant, the Browns have probably signed the only free agent who played at Harvard, was undrafted by an NFL team, and not only has an arrest record, but whose mug shot is worth the time of a Google search.

It's a narrow free agent category, but at least the Browns have that covered.

-- At the start of play Saturday night, the Miami Heat, in their current winning streak, had won more games than Orlando or Charlotte had won all year, and Miami's 21 wins during the streak was only one shy of the Cavs' season total.

Just saying.

-- The Denver Broncos have released defensive end Elvis Dumervil because the team missed the deadline for filing the contract Dumervil agreed to.

That's really Dumervil.

-- The Knicks have signed Kenyon Martin for the rest of the season. Martin had previously signed two 10-day contracts with the team.

Apparently Martin then asked for a 13-day contract but the Knicks countered with an offer of an 11-day contract.

One thing led to another, and ... oh, never mind.

-- Sunday is selection Sunday for the NCAA tournament. That's the day every year that is preceded by Hmm Let's See Saturday, and is followed by We Got Screwed Monday.

Weak of the week

In the first game of the Atlantic-10 Conference men's basketball tournament, Charlotte beat Richmond 68-63. There was a little hubbub at the end of the game that resulted in some technical fouls that led to a Charlotte player shooting 11 consecutive fouls shots.